2007/2008 - Adult Television Drama

The following adult television dramas were financed by the former FFC during the 2007/2008 period.


THE CIRCUIT - SERIES 2
Media World Pictures
Producers Ross Hutchens, Colin South
Co-Producers Dot West, Yvonne Collins
Director TBC
Writers Kelly Lefever, Dot West, Mitch Torres
Sales and Distribution SBS, SBS Content Sales
Synopsis Aboriginal lawyer Drew Ellis continues his journey on the chaotic, challenging world of the Kimberley Court - a circuit that takes a magistrate and an entourage of court officers and lawyers on a regular five day 2000 kilometre round trip to dispense justice to the dusty, remote communities of north-western Australia.

EAST OF EVERYTHING - SERIES 2
Twenty 20 Pty Ltd
Producer Fiona Eagger
Director Stuart McDonald
Co-producer/Writer Deb Cox
Associate producer/Writer Roger Monk
Sales and Distribution ABC, Indigo Film and Television
Synopsis When Art and Vance Watkins re-open the doors of the ramshackle resort they grew up in, they unwittingly invite the return of the free-spirited father who abandoned them decades earlier, when his paradise was spoiled.

EAST WEST 101 - SERIES 2
Knapman Wyld Television Pty Ltd
Producers Steve Knapman, Kris Wyld
Director Peter Andrikidis
Writers Kristen Dunphy, Michael Miller, Michelle Offen, Vanessa Bates, Katherine Thompson
Sales and Distribution SBS Independent, SBS Content Sales, Target, Knapman Wyld, NSW FTO
Synopsis In Season Two, East West 101 expands to seven episodes as the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in aII quarters of multi cultural Sydney.

DIRT GAME (6x1 hour mini-series)
Harvey Taft Productions
Producers: Michael Harvey, David Taft
Director: TBC
Writer: Michael Harvey
Sales and Distribution: Beyond, Omnilab, ABC
Synopsis: A 6-part drama series about a UK CEO who is sent out by his secretive London Board to head up a debt-ridden Australian mining firm and who - with the help of a hastily-formed Aussie crisis-management team - is under ruthless instruction to either save the company or dump it.

FALSE WITNESS (2x2 hour mini-series)
Screentime Pty Ltd
Executive producers: Des Monaghan, Brendan Dahill, Justin Bodle
Producer: Greg Haddrick
Director: Peter Andrikidis
Writers: Ronan Glennane, Nell Greenwood, Greg Haddrick
Sales and Distribution: Power, UKTV
Synopsis: Against the heavily researched feature backdrop of bickering intelligence agencies, fallible police forces and international tensions, False Witness is a high-octane thriller based on the West's worst nightmare: a threat they do not see coming.

SAVED (2x1hour mini-series)
Big and Little Films
Producers: Tony Ayres, Michael McMahon
Director: Tony Ayres
Writers: Belinda Chayko
Sales and Distribution: SBS, SBS Content
Synopsis: The story of a married woman who saves a young Iranian refugee from detention, only to fall passionately in love with him.

CARLA CAMETTI PD (6x1 hour mini-series)
Buona Notte Productions Pty Ltd
Executive Producer: Ewan Burnett
Producers: Elisa Argenzio, Cristina Pozzan
Director: TBA
Writers: Jo Martino, Samantha Winston, Liz Doran, Kris Mrksa
Sales and Distribution: SBS TV and SBS Sales
Synopsis: Carla Cametti PD is a fast -paced and fresh crime series with a young Italian female as its lead.It is a human drama with lashings of crime and a huge dollop of wit, casting an eye across the incongruity of earthy day-to day life butting up against the heightened reality of designer-dressed gangsters roaming our streets.

THE CUT (6x1 hour mini-series)
Tom Blacket Media
Producer: Tom Blacket
Director: TBC
Writer: John Misto
Sales and Distribution: ABCTV, Target Entertainment
Synopsis: The Cut is a comedy drama, which explores the soft underbelly of professional sport by following the fortunes of a family owned sports management company run by a colourful patriarch.

SCORCHED (telemovie)
Essential Viewing in association with Firelight Productions
Executive Producers: Jo Horsburgh, Rosemary Blight,Chris Hilton
Producers: Kylie Du Fresne, Ellenor Cox
Director: Tony Tilse
Cross Platform producer/director: Marcus Gillezeau
Writer: Tim Pye
Sales and Distribution: Nine Network, Granada International, FTO, Sunday Night Movies, AFC
Synopsis: Five years from now and after 600 days without rain Sydney has run out of water... then the unthinkable happens. The city is engulfed by fire.

SEA PATROL SERIES 2 (13x1 hour mini-series)
McElroy All Media
Executive Producers: Hal McElroy, Di McElroy
Director: Geoff Bennett, Ian Barry
Writers: Michaeley O'Brien, Jeff Truman, Tony Morphett, John Ridley, Matt Ford, Philip Dalkin, Samantha Winston and Felicity Packard
Sales and Distribution: Nine Network /Portman Media
Synopsis: Everyday heroes doing an extraordinary job

Adult Television Drama Archive